Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-06
MILL NOTES.

4 nail mill will be erected ut Washing
ton, Ohio, this year.
Bolt and nut works are 10 be started in
Reading. Pa, upon the cooperative plan,
with a capital of so, 900.
Vie new nail factory at Meadville, Pa,
will begin operations with orders in for
over ], 800 kegs Of nails and more coming.
The Wabash mill is running ut full ca
pacity in all departments, and n very heavy
trade is being supplied.
The Maumee rolling mill, at ToldO, o.,
is once more in operation. Ii il believed
that within q few months fully $40 men
will find employment there.
The Terre IIaute, Ind, nail factory was
closed down, with the exception of a few
machines, during the week ending Febru-
AIRY 26th, but the plate and pudding de-
partmcnts run double turn all week.
The Allentown Rolling Mill Co.'S eX-
lcnsive mill, idle for Il couple of years, will
start at once. The company have for some
time past been engaged in changing the
iron rail mill, preparing To roll beams.
MesSrs. William Rodgers and Farrelly
Alden, of P%ittsburg, have closed negOti-
atiOus for five acres Of land near FreepOrt,
on which To erect Il large works for the
manufacture of Russia sheet iron.
The IN is wide spread In Newburg
Cleveland that = plate mill Of large pro-
portions will be built on the site Of the old
Forest City Rolling Mill, ut Union cross
ing. II is also whispered that the Cleve-
land Rolling Mill Co. is the protector OF
the scheme.
The syndicate lease Of the Woods iron
plant of Wheatland, Pa, including rolling
mill, furnaces, over 100 dwelling houses,
and real estate, has been confirmed. The
mill will be used Tor the manufacture of
sheet iron.
W.. f.. Tanner, of Richmond, formerly
president of the Tanner Delaney Engineer
ing Company, at Richmond, ISL Birming-
ham, Ala, for the purpose Of organizing u
rolling mill company, and is receiving lib
eral encouragement.
The /, 900 employees at the Britton iron
and steel works, at Cleveland, Ohio, have
had their a increased from 10 to ID
per cent. The 900 men who struck at the
American wire works for an advance Of III
Der cent are still ont. Both sides are hrm,
and it looks rs if the struggle will be a
long one.
Il is reported that the Cleveland Rolling
Mill Company will Introduce a new patent
nv which the steel will be run from the
steel works TO the blooming mill and
thronnh the rail rolls without reheating.
The rail and blooming mills, which have
been idle for several weeks, have reSnmed
work.
There is n possibility of the rolling mill
NJ La Grange, Missouri, being reStarted To
roll rails from imported steel blooms. 1t
has been idle since the failure of the Tut
bular Rail Company, under whose owner
shin it was operated for brief time IN l7H'.
If the mill is started for the purpose above
mentioned il will be under the auspices oil
a new railroad company.
The wrought iron pipe wOrks0I the Look
ont iron Co, Chattanooga, Tenn, have
been temporarily shut down, owing to the
heavy demand for bar iron. The iron Tor
the manufacture of the pipe Is furnished
by the valley mill, but the demand for iron
has been : largely in excess OF th"t IoI
nine that the management decided Ia smut
down the pipe works.
The ,teel nail factory of the st. Louis
Wire Mill Company iseNPected to he ready
for starting about the 18th of March. The
building which is admirably constructor
for strength, convenience and immunity
from fire, is ready for the placing Oh the
MACHINERY. which arrived recently ICON
Germany. Fifty machines Will he uSe"'
The engine and boilers will soon be IN p"-
sitiOn. uI,
A controlling interest in the rolling MUS
in Windsor Locks, known rs the windsor
Tocks Steel Company, whose stock was ron,
trolIed by G. w. Smith, OF Bridgeport ana
- Mr., skinner, of Springfield, Mass, the
secretary OF the company, has been Soia 70
New York parties eaded ny Ilusu 60
cit. II is supposed this means the stand
ard oil Company, rs the same party has
lately bought up the mill which furnished
this company with the ingots they rolled,
Tbey have large orders on hand anu run
the mill night and day.-A~e''e"" nun"